Re: Startup scripts of Debian Lenny don't perform file system check while on battery power
On 01/13/09 04:40, elektra wrote:
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I think the reason is that the startup scripts of the Lenny version I was
running (installed with the netinstall cd in June or July on a Asus EEE PC
901 and frequently updated until it broke on Dezember 23rd 2008) omits the
file system check if it detects a mobile system running on battery.
The startup scripts issue a warning of the kind "Warning! Skipping file system
check because the system is running on battery power" - I don't know the
exact wording - so the sysadmin has to perform the check manually after
boot-up to avoid data loss...
It's been like that for ages, since a full fsck takes a long time,
which would drain the batteries.
over again without a file system check! Checking a interrupted ext3 mount is
a matter of seconds so where is the point in skipping the check?
That's just a load of garbage. e2fsck can take a *long* time.
[snip]
I like Debian and I'm surely going to use it again somewhere some day. And I'm
sorry that I didn't write this email earlier - but I was busy and I was
pissed. I'm running Slackware 12.2 now on the 901. It is not comfortable but
it doesn't break because of an update and I can trust the people writing the
startup scripts.
Blah blah blah.
--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"I am not surprised, for we live long and are celebrated poopers."
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